Other Interdisciplinary Collaborations

The Reroot Detroit team seeks to tackle issues facing Detroit residents-- including poor water, air, and soil quality; food insecurity and food desserts; and high unemployment rates. Unlike other green infrastructure organizations in Detroit, we won’t purchase land parcels, instead we plan to lease land from the City of Detroit at a decreased price. This allows us to keep costs down and increase community support as the City will still own the land. After we have identified parcels of interest and have negotiated the details of the lease, we plan to work with community partners to survey the needs and interests of community members. Once community input has been received, we plan to choose a green infrastructure project that best benefits the community and install it on the land leased from the City of Detroit. We then provide training to each community on how to maintain their green infrastructure. This same training would be available to Contractors and City employees for a flat rate that would fund the installation of green infrastructure and training of under-resourced communities. The training provided to contractors and city employees also allows for better maintenance of green infrastructure across the city, not just Reroot Detroit parcels.